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The appointment of two very close to the Jewish state, Mike Huckabee and Steven Witkoff, to important positions in the region suggests a policy of the future White House under Donald Trump that is even more pro-Israeli than under Joe Biden.
Presented by Donald Trump as “tireless voices for peace in the Middle East”, the two men that the President-elect has just appointed to two key positions for the region portend a very Trumpist vision of peace. The first, Mike Huckabee, 69, former governor of Arkansas appointed US ambassador to Israel, is an evangelical Baptist pastor, who “worship Israel and the people of Israel who also love him”, Trump argued in his announcement of the nomination of «Mike». As for Steven Witkoff, 67, designated as special envoy for the Middle East, he is a real estate tycoon, at the head of a fortune estimated at more than half a billion dollars, major contributor to the Republican campaign and above all a regular partner of Donald Trump’s golf games in Florida.
In addition to their close proximity in age and friendship to Donald Trump, the two men now in charge of the burning Middle East issue also have in common a total inexperience in international politics, not to mention “diplomacy”. Saying again “very moved by this nomination” after the announcement of his appointment, the new ambassador to Israel gave a first interview to Israeli army radio. “It’s a great day and a huge honor for me, he declared. I will help establish the memory
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